Beings are independently of the experience, cognition, and comprehension through which they are disclosed, discovered, and determined. But being "is" only in the understanding* of that being to whose being something like an understanding of being belongs. Thus being [Sein] can be unconceptualized, but it is never completely uncomprehended. In ontological problematics, being and truth have been brought together since ancient times, if not even identified. This documents the necessary connection of being and understanding† [Verständnis], even if it is perhaps concealed in its primordial grounds. Thus for an adequate preparation of the question of being, we need an ontological clarification of the phenomenon of truth. This will be accomplished initially on the basis of that which om interpretation hitherto has gained with the phenomena of disclosedness and discoveredness, interpretation and statement.
The conclusion of the preparatory fundamental analysis of Dasein thus has as its theme the fundamental attunement of anxiety as a distinctive disclosedness of Dasein (§ 40), the being of Dasein as care (§ 41), the confirmation of the existential interpretation of Dasein as care in terms of the pre-ontological self-interpretation of Dasein (§ 42), Dasein, worldliness, and reality (§ 43), Dasein, disclosedness, and truth (§ 44).
§ 40. The Fundamental Attunement of Anxiety as an Eminent Disclosedness of Dasein
One possibility of being of Dasein is to give antic "information" about itself as a being. Such information is possible only in the disclosedness belonging to Dasein which is based on attunement and understanding. To what extent is anxiety a distinctive attunement? How, in anxiety, is Dasein brought before itself in it through its own being, so that phenomenologically the being disclosed in anxiety is defined as such in its being, or adequate preparations can be made for doing so?
With the intention of penetrating to the being of the totality of the structural whole, we shall take our point of departure from the concrete analysis of entanglement carried out in the last chapter. The absorption of Dasein in the they and in the "world" taken care of reveals something like a flight of Dasein from itself as an authentic potentiality for being itself. This phenomenon of the flight of Dasein from itself and its authenticity seems, however, to be least appropriate to serve as a
* But this understanding as listening. But this never means that 'being' is only 'subjective,' but that being (qua the being of beings) qua difference "in" Dasein as what is thrown by the (throw).
† Thus: being and Dasein.